Northern Sinfonia

Folk roots and new nations
With the collapse of Imperial domination, new nations were emerging, keen to promote their national culture and history, and old ones were looking anew at their rich heritage. Frequently, they wished to escape the shadow of G

Beethoven could bear it no longer. On 6th October 1802 he sat down to write to his brothers, but what came out might as well have been addressed to the world. He knew he was going deaf, but he railed against his decline with everything he had.
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